is left always right?

it's entertaining reading/observing conservative and super liberal commentary because there is more in common than most people would like to admit/assume. both can be bias, both can come from one-two frame(s) of references, both can sound elitist in tone, and both can come off whining and like the end all, be all. i'm not at all denying my liberal upbringing & my own hypocrisies, but i do see the discrepancies within both perspectives. i.e. when a peer will give accolades to someone for wearing a trendy activista t-shirt and then they go on to state a very general fundamentalist-bashing statement... or even more painful, they'll be rockin' the newest adidas footwear that matches their very hipster looking "fuck the police" hoody. where's the validity in that? (sometimes a person's materialism can downplay their vocal down-to-earth values.)
in LA, it's just as conditioned to come off as left wing liberal as much as it's conditioned to be conservative in the south. in some instances, you try to find the root of one's beliefs, with the end result of the person not being able to fully articulate the source, beyond this is what their upbringing and environment conditioned them to believe. i'm probably coming off as a social snob, but lately amongst this "change" frenzy, there has been a need to put our true intents under a microscope.
if we truly desire change, a movement, then our senses could be more open and we could listen to those with opposite views with impartial intent. maybe this is more of a note to self, but in the midst of the preaching-of-change, how much advancement can really occur if we're not open to truly identifying the framework of the opposite side of the spectrum?

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